Anonymous
asked:
Dear Tom, why does battleboard related stuff annoy you so much? Shouldn't the people, who invest COUNTLESS of hours into debating who would win in a fight between Thor and Silver Surfer - be viewed as hardcore fans, who care about the the characters they grew up with? Are their needs less worth than the needs of the bigger majority of people, who simply buy a comic to own it and to check out the storyline in it? I'm kinda disappointed by your comments in the past. Greetings Michael.

it doesn’t bother me per se, I’m just not even remotely interested in it. But the folks who are typically will try to coerce me into such a conversation, so that they can club their like-minded friends who have a different opinion on the relative strength levels of the Hulk and the Thing with whatever I’ve said. And then those friends come around here all angry about it, quoting reference from past issues and trying to get me to recant. And on and on it goes. And I simply do not care about the argument. So I’m happy for folks for whom this is an important and involving question to be free to discuss and debate it to their heart’s content elsewhere. I just don’t need to be a part of that conversation.